February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death February 2, 1947
The temperature on February 2, 1947 was between -9.0 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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